House debates

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:58 pm

Photo of Greg HuntGreg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

With regard to the figures, on a state-by-state basis, in terms of lives lost within aged-care facilities, there have been zero in the ACT, 29 in New South Wales, zero in the Northern Territory, one in Queensland, none in South Australia, three in Tasmania, 433 in Victoria, one in Western Australia, which is 467 across Australia. I would note that the opposition has made much of the accuracy of particular figures. There are two occasions—and I would not have brought this to the attention of the House until the fact that the opposition seems to have raised this—

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